I feel not unlike Gloria Stuart in Titanic when it comes to waiting for the final season of Stranger Things. It’s been 84 years. The first episodes of the final season will drop on Thanksgiving, as we know, but we want some indication the characters in Hawkins, IN haven’t been resting on their laurels since the last season. Do they have any kind of training regimen ahead of their inevitable showdown with Vecna and the forces of the Upside Down? Well, Eleven definitely does, as this brief clip from Stranger Things 5
In the clip, we see Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) sporting what looks more like a Willie Nelson costume than workout apparel. She jumps, clips, and flips over old cars and other junkyard…junk while zapping pumpkins with her powers. It’s the kind of pre-American Ninja Warrior obstacle course we always dreamed about. The course ends with her superhero jumping over a school bus and rolling to a stop. Hopper and Joyce are there to tell her she broke her own record, which isn’t enough for her. “Reset it,” she says.
It’s funny that Eleven has never seemingly needed that level of physicality for any of the other myriad fights against monsters she’s had. I also don’t think her ability to walk on a plank of wood has much to do with whether her psychic knives can blow something up. (That’s the focused totality of her telekinetic powers, don’t ya know.) But it’s good to see the heroes taking everything seriously heading into the final fight against ol’ vine face.
Stranger Things 5 has officially set a three-part 2025 release schedule. The release dates for Stranger Things 5‘s three volumes are as follows:
- Stranger Things 5, Volume 1 releases on November 26
- This includes episodes one through four.
- Stranger Things 5, Volume 2 releases on Christmas (December 25)
- This includes episodes five through seven.
- Stranger Things 5, Volume 3 releases on New Year’s Eve (December 31)
- This is the finale episode, or episode eight.
Each part of Stranger Things 5 releases at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET.
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